I Have Been Sleeved

It's a sleeve!

That may not mean much to the normal among us, but completing a sleeve is big among knitters.  The really good thing is that I was so inspired to finish the first, that the second sleeve is half done.

I would have knit more but it was time to set it aside and rest.  I spent a good part of the rest of the day chatting with Marcus.  

When my boys were small and they were playing computer games, they all crowded around to watch.  And they took turns.  It was a really cooperative thing for them.  When Marcus and I are talking, it is the same thing.  He just wants someone to watch along with him.  He needs to have a crew around him cheering him on, discussing his choices and his strategies with him.  And so every couple days, we 'talk'.  I am so happy to do it. 

I don't get to do it with my other Carter's family.  They have fewer devices and more kids.  When I talk with Carter it's games on the phone or these really nice deep talks about the world and storm watching and night skies and big thoughts. With his little brothers poking their heads in and telling me about their world too.  It  is sweet and funny and I come away charmed by their hearts.  

I am a lucky grandma.  And a lucky knitter who will finish a sleeve today and will only have a neckband and ends to weave in before I have a pretty new top.